The heart's 'little brain' controlling cardiac function in the rabbit

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 348-353

  Brack, Kieran E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN GANGLION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GANGLION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATED HEART; NERVE CELL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PULMONARY VEIN; RABBIT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RABBITS;

EID: 84925958968     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2014.080168     Document Type: Article

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